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" No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. "
Detainee Operations Inspection - Page E-41
by United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Inspector General - 2004 - 306 pages
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American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination

Kristian Williams - 2006 - 292 pages
...of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity.44 Article 17 then specifies: No physical or mental torture, nor any other form...answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind. Similar rights are extended to noncombatants as...
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United States Practice in International Law: Volume 2, 2002-2004

Sean D. Murphy - 2002 - 462 pages
...Judge Says Detainees' Trials Are Unlawful, WASH. POST, Nov. 9, 2004, at Al. humanely treated" and that "[n]o physical or mental torture, nor any other form...answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind." 1 The US War Crimes Act provides that it is a...
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Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War

Mary-Wynne Ashford - 2006 - 294 pages
...protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity." "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form...them information of any kind whatever." Prisoners have the right to be visited by the Red Cross or the Red Crescent Society, to practice their religious...
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Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power

Joseph Margulies - 2007 - 354 pages
...treated" and cannot be subjected to "acts of violence or intimidation."41 While POWs maybe interrogated, "[n]o physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted." And POWs who refuse to answer questions "may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant...
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Das Kriegsvölkerrecht - Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Anwendung am ...

Tobias Meints - 2007 - 237 pages
...card shall be shown by the prisoner of war upon demand, but may in no case be taken away from him. No physical or mental torture, nor any other form...answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind. Prisoners of war who, owing to their physical...
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Frak You!: The Ultimate Unauthorized Guide to Battlestar Galactica

Jo Storm - 2007 - 400 pages
...Article 1 3 reads "Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated," while Article 1 7 reads, "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form...answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind." The Geneva Conventions have been frequently in...
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Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program

Stephen Grey - 2006 - 384 pages
...of aggressive questioning, and on any kinds of incentives provided to those who talked. It states: "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form...secure from them information of any kind whatever." Similar protection existed for captured civilians from "physical or moral coercion ... in particular...
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Prisoners of War

Ron Fridell - 2008 - 168 pages
...questioning," Gonzales appears to refer to this sentence from Article 17 of the 1949 POW Convention: "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form...secure from them information of any kind whatever." By "new paradigm," Gonzales means a new strategy for fighting this new kind of war, including new interrogation...
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National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism

Alison Brysk, Gershon Shafir - 2007 - 255 pages
...Third Geneva Convention specifies, POWs are required to provide only personal military information and "no physical or mental torture, nor any other form...of war to secure from them information of any kind whatsoever" (GC III, Article 17.4; Fleck 1995: 345—46). More broadly, the Fourth Geneva Convention...
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The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law

Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier - 2007 - 586 pages
...applied to noninternational conflicts (PII Article 4). Geneva Conventions expressly stipulate that no physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on protected persons to secure from them or from third parties information of any kind (GCIII Article...
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